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The Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab (SAL) will be hosting two GPS workshops to help students, faculty, and staff brush-up on GPS skills in preparation for summer work and research. Workshops are available to all, no previous experience necessary. Feel free to attend one or both workshops. Please sign-up in advance GPS Data Collection with […]

Each year on November 19th we like to reflect on the GIS successes, failure, trials, tribulations, joys, and tears we’ve experienced. We do this in honor of GIS day — an Esri holiday — as a reminder of how fortunate we are to be able to explore the world in such depth from a chair […]

Answer Revealed This mystery map challenged viewers to anticipate movements on campus based on a set of starting points and ending points. What quest is shown on the map?? The journey to the Lewis Global Studies coffee machine! The map was inspired by a mapping survey conducted at this coffee machine in Wright Hall. The survey gathered […]

On the Smith campus lives a secret coffee machine that dispenses wonderful lattes and cappuccinos at no cost to its users. **For the sake of protecting the machine’s identity we will not explicitly state its location or hours of operation in this article. This magical coffee machine is a common topic of conversation in Sabin-Reed — […]

The Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab is happy to celebrate the start of another new school year. While the College looks forward to a new first-year class and a new provost, the Spatial Analysis Lab also has some new additions to highlight. New people: The SAL welcomes our new post-bac fellow, Victoria Beckley, all the […]